Chinese Domain Name Registration Scams

In the middle of December 2012 an individual in China calling himself simply “John” attempted to scare me into registering the .asia, .cn, .com.cn, .net.cn and .org.cn versions of my website’s address using a Chinese Domain Name Scam. The individual responsible is almost certainly one Pan Xiaohong of Shanghai, who failed to convince me to purchase a single thing from him.

Chinese Domain Name Scams

Too Long; Didn’t Read?

It’s a scam

Delete it

There’s no need to register these domain names through your usual registrar

If you ask your usual registrar they will probably use FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt) to encourage you to spend money with them as most registrars are not much better than these scammers

The Long Version…

Here’s an email I received before Christmas from info@ygnetworksit.com:

Dear Manager,

(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO,Thanks)

This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration in China. We received an application from BaoYuan Ltd on December 17, 2012. They want to register ” squelchdesign ” as their internet keyword and China/Asia (CN/ASIA) domain names. But after checking it, we find this name conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?

An odd email; Lots of broken English and things that don’t entirely make sense if you know anything about my company, but then it could be from a legitimate source that simply hasn’t taken the time to find out more about the company. I figured it had to be suspect, but gave them the benefit of the doubt to see where this was heading:

Hello John,

I’m not 100% sure I am understanding your question fully. BaoYuan are in no way associated with Squelch Design, today is the first time I heard the name.

Yes there would be a conflict if they go ahead and register squelchdesign.cn; Squelch Design does not actively operate in China, but is happy to accept custom from all over the world. I believe registering a company in China with the same name would cause brand confusion and erosion and, given that I went to great lengths to find a name that was not already in use, and having invested a great deal of time and money into Search Engine Optimisation, registering a similarly named website would be very poor etiquette. As far as I can tell BaoYuan are in the chemical/packing materials industry, so it strikes me as odd that they would want to register “squelchdesign” as a domain.

Many thanks,
Matt Lowe

Three days later I got a response. Not from John, but from Lin JianFa – supposedly an employee of BaoYuan – yet using the address jianfa.lin@yahoo.cn:

Dear Sirs,

Our company has submitted the “squelchdesign ” as CN/Asia domain name and Internet Keyword, we are waiting for Mr. John’s approval. We think this name is very important for our products in Chinese and Asian market. Even though Mr. John advises us to change another name, we will persist in this name.

Best regards

Lin JianFa

Immediately I smelt a rat, the style of the speech was absolutely identical to John’s, as was the formatting and with similar incorrect usage of punctuation. I’ve seen this before when I baited a Nigerian 419 scammer a few years back. The fact that this employee of the company was using a Yahoo address was just plain wrong. So far they’d set the scene: They’d heavily implied someone was going to take my company name and start using it, creating brand confusion, but they’d not yet presented a way to get money out of me. So, I carried on playing along:

Lin,

I believe that if you persist in using the name squelchdesign.cn you will only confuse my customers and yours, making it more difficult for my customers to find my website. May I ask what services/business your company would be doing with the name?

Many thanks,
Matt Lowe

That was the last I heard from Lin. John, however, did send me more emails:

Dear Matt ,

Based on your company having no relationship with them, we have suggested they should choose another name to avoid this conflict but they insist on this name as CN/Asia domain names (.asia and .cn and .com.cn and .net.cn and .org.cn) and internet keyword on the internet. In our opinion, maybe they do the similar business as your company and register it to promote his company.
According to the domain name registration principle: The domain names and internet keyword which applied based on the international principle are opened to companies as well as individuals. Any companies or individuals have rights to register any domain name and internet keyword which are unregistered. Because your company haven’t registered this name as CN/ASIA domains and internet keyword on the internet, anyone can obtain them by registration. However, in order to avoid this conflict, the trademark or original name owner has priority to make this registration in our audit period. If your company is the original owner of this name and want to register these CN/ASIA domain names (.asia and .cn and .com.cn and .net.cn and .org.cn) and internet keyword to prevent anybody from using them, please inform us. We can send an application form and the price list to you and help you register these within dispute period.

The checking time will be over soon, we have not received your reply about the domain name and internet keyword since our last communication. You must know domain name takes open registration, this is international domain name registration principle. So the company has right to register them. As a domain name registrar, we have no right to refuse their application. We aslo suggest this company should change another name but they stick to this name so if your company want to prevent anybody from using these domains, the only way is to register these CN/ASIA domains and internet keyword. In our checking time, your company has first priority to register them. Could you tell us whether your company want to make this application to prevent anybody from using them or not?

Best Regards

John

Hi John,

Thanks for the reply. How much would it cost?

Many thanks,
Matt Lowe

And now, the moment of truth:

Dear Matt:

Thanks for your reply. If you would like to protect by yourself and according to our checking progress,
we will send an application blank to you. After you fill in it, you need to send it back to us. When we
received you information we will overrule their application and register for you in one day. And the
registration fee for CN domain is 38.8 USD year, ASIA domain is 36.6 USD per year, internet keyword
is 148 USD per year. If you want to protect yourself, I am very glad to help you. Right now, the checking
is going to the end, please reply in two working days.

Have a nice day .

Best Regards

John

So back in his first email he suggested BaoYuan wanted to register squelchdesign.asia, squelchdesign.cn, squelchdesign.com.cn, squelchdesign.net.cn, squelchdesign.org.cn, and the internet keyword “squelchdesign”. That’s one .asia, four .cn domains, and one Internet keyword. That comes to a total of $339.80 USD or approximately £214. Update 2017: See below, it gets worse!

The moral of the story is if you get an email from China (or anywhere else for that matter) warning you that someone is trying to muscle in on your business’s name, be very careful. Very very careful indeed. Here’s the registration details for the scammer’s company:

I’m 99% sure that “John” is a fictitious character and that Pan Xiaohong is in fact the perpetrator. So maybe if you get an email from this John character, maybe try replying with “Hi Pan”, and see what happens? ;) Take care of your businesses guys.

Update 28/08/2013

The comments section below is getting pretty long as more and more people find this blog and send in the emails they received. As such I’m going to try and summarise the information in the comments below.

You might get emails from any of the following companies: YIGUAN, YIGUDNS, YIGUTEK, YGITECH or the domain names www.ygnetworkit.com, www.yiguannetwork.com, www.yigudns.com, www.yigutek.com, www.ygitech.com, www.cnygregistry.net, www.ygregistryltd.net, www.ygasia.org, www.ygcompany.org, pxisp.net or des-registry.org.They might use one of the following names: John, Jim, Terry Tang, Peter Cheng, James Zhang, Simon Cheng, Gary Zhang, Mika Cao, Lan Du, Lex Ren, Jim Ying, Bill Cheng, Mark Wong or Abby Wang.They might claim that the company attempting to register the domain is: BaoYuan Ltd, Weisheng company, Weisheng Holdings Ltd, Taisheng Limited, PengCheng Trading Co. Ltd, Huasheng Ltd, Huafeng Ltd or Kenpoco Ltd. Note that some, perhaps even all, of these companies are legitimate Asian companies and the scammers are simply using their names to try and give credibility to their claims.You might be contacted by someone claiming to be from one of the companies above, usually using a Yahoo or Hotmail email address rather than a legitimate business address: Lin JianFa, Warren Chiou, Darren Chiou or Jiang Zhifa.

If you received an email with slightly different wording or from a different company then please feel free to post it in the comments section below so I can update the blog and we can all stay one step ahead of the scam.

Update 06/10/2017

After I posted this blog I never received any more of these scam emails, probably because my website was coming up in first place in Google for any searches related to “Chinese domain name scams”. I even tried replying on behalf of a few customers who’d received scam emails to see if I could further mess with the scammers, but I guess they did their homework because none of them would reply to me. Until the 19th of September that is, when “Charles Xu” contacted me.

(It’s very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. Thanks)

We are the domain registration and solution center in China. On Sep 18, 2017, we received an application from Jiatai Ltd requested “squelchdesign” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (squelchdesign.cn, squelchdesign.com.cn, squelchdesign.net.cn, squelchdesign.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your business partner in China?

How could I resist playing their game? It’s been 4 years since I was last contacted and asked to pay the ridiculous sum of £214 for domains I neither wanted nor needed. What would this scam look like in 2017?

Hi Charles,

We have no business dealings with Jiatai Ltd and any registration of a name featuring “squelchdesign” would be an infringement of our trading name.

Charles Good-Cop Xu had set the scene and had a bite. Now it was time for Gareth Bad-Cop Ren to do his part:

To whom it concerns,

We will register the China domain names “squelchdesign.cn” “squelchdesign.com.cn” “squelchdesign.net.cn” “squelchdesign.org.cn” and internet keyword “squelchdesign” and have submitted our application. We are waiting for Mr. Charles Xu’s approval and think these CN domains and internet keyword are very important for our business. Even though Mr. Charles Xu advised us to change another name, we will persist in this name.

Kind regards

Gareth Ren

Oh dear, that sounds terrible. I’d better play the worried webmaster part then:

Hello Gareth,

Registration of any domain name or Internet keywords containing “squelchdesign” would clearly water down our brand and would only cause confusion in the marketplace. We ask that you not make any such registration and instead create your own unique name.

Time once again for the good cop routine. Thank goodness Charles Xu was there to save the day.

Dear Matt Lowe,

We have already advised them to choose another name according to your company that have no relationship with them, but they insist on this name as China domain names (squelchdesign.cn, squelchdesign.com.cn, squelchdesign.net.cn, squelchdesign.org.cn) and internet keyword. In our opinion, maybe they do the similar business as your company then register it to promote his company.

As is known to all, domain name registration based on the international principle is opened to company and individual. Any company or individual have the right to register any domain name and internet keyword which are unregistered. Your company haven’t registered this name as China domains and internet keyword, so anyone is able to obtain them by registration. But in order to avoid this conflict, the trademark or original name owner have priority to register China domain name and internet keyword during our dispute period. If your company is the original owner of this name and want to register these China domain names (squelchdesign.cn, squelchdesign.com.cn, squelchdesign.net.cn, squelchdesign.org.cn) and internet keyword to prevent anybody from using them, please inform us. We can send you an application form with price list to help your company register these China domains and internet keyword during our dispute period.

And now I just need to play my final part to get to the end-game, finding out their exorbitant prices:

Hi Charles,

We are indeed the original name owner and cannot have anyone infringing on our name. Please send over the application form.

And what a nice chap, he sent me his price list.

So to register all of the names and keywords that “Charles” suggests would set us back USD $1,476 which is roughly equivalent to £1,124 for registrations that we in no way need. This scam is getting more vicious, the total amount they want to rip people off by has grown from £214 to £1,124 – nearly a thousand pounds in 4 short years…

Don’t fall prey to these scammers! Delete and forget their emails, don’t pay them a penny.

About the “squelchdesign”, we have some thing to comfirm with you! We are an agency engaging in registering brand name and domain names, on October 11, 2017, we received an application named “Derlery Company” and they apply to register squelchdesign as their brand name and some top-level asian domain names. But we found the main body of domain names is same as yours. We are not sure about the relationship between you and them.

As the registrar, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we would finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays. After the deadline we will unconditionally finish the registration for “Derlery Company” Looking forward to your prompt reply.

We have no dealings with Derlery Company and any attempt to register our trading name in China would have a considerable negative impact on our brand.

Dear Matt Lowe,

Thanks for your confirmation. As soon as receiving the application of “Derlery Company”, we checked and found “squelchdesign” is your company’s using name and brand. We are concerned that your brand name might be affected negatively by their applications, this is why we informed you. Following Network Brand and domain names are applied by “Derlery Company”:
Net Brand: squelchdesign
Domain Names:
“squelchdesign.cn
squelchdesign.com.cn
squelchdesign.net.cn
squelchdesign.org.cn
squelchdesign.cn.com
squelchdesign.asia
squelchdesign.in
squelchdesign.co.in
squelchdesign.hk
squelchdesign.com.hk
squelchdesign.tw
squelchdesign.com.tw
squelchdesign.中国
”
You know that the domain names registration is open in the world, “Derlery Company” also has the right to apply for the available domain names, but you have the preferential rights to register them. We also are not very clear about why the company wants to register these domain names, but according to our work experience, if they finish the registration, in internet, your customers must be confused and this registration will bring lots of competition to your company to impact your business soon.

At present, we haven’t passed their application, we need your opinion. If your company consider these names of importance to your company’s business and interest, I suggest your company to register these names first so as to avoid confusion or speculation. Of course, If you don’t want to protect your intellectual property rights, then you can give up these names so that we can finish registering for them as per our duty. Please give me your company’s decision as soon as possible in order to handle this issue better.

Have a nice day.
Best Regards,

Owen Chen
Senior Adviser Manager

Hi Owen,

Thanks for informing me, I wouldn’t want my customers being confused by this registration. How do I go about registering these domain names?

Dear Matt Lowe,

Thanks for your confirmation, Of course, I can assure you that the best way for you to protect your business is to register these domains under your name, because after you finish the registration, you will become the exclusive owner of them! We, as the China local registrar, if you need to register those domains, we can help you.
Following is the procedure, you can do follow these:
1.You fill in the Registration Contract it via email(scanned) or fax.
2.We will send the Invoice signed & stamped to you, In the meantime We will formally submit the application to register for you and put on records according to you signed Registration Contract.
3.You transfer the payment to us according to the Bank information on the Invoice within 5 workdays and fax the payment proof to us.
4.You will be awarded the certificates of Domains after 10 workdays.

Attached the Registration Contract, pls check. About the detailed price, pls refer to the contract.
If no question, please fill the contract and return to us ASAP, we will help you register these domain names as per the information which you will fill in the contract,thanks for your cooperation.

About Matt Lowe

Matt Lowe is a WordPress web designer / developer based in Newbury, Berkshire. After 8 years of doing the nine-to-five for other companies and watching them make the same mistakes over and over he set out in business on his own, forming Squelch Design to help businesses get online and make money.

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Mine came from Victoria. I’m going to leave it in the spam folder to die.

Dear Sir,

The jrhobbs name registration is concerned with your company name,please check it prudently.

This is a letter regarding jrhobbs brand and some jrhobbs based domain names. We are a Chinese domain registrar. Recently we received the registration application from Shenzhen MAT Co. Limited,they want to register the jrhobbs brand and some domain names. Firstly,we want to confirm if the company is your company’s cooperative partner. Secondly,we need to verify whether you have allowed the company to apply these names.

We are an agency engaging in registering brand name and domain names. Today, Our center received an application from YANHON COMPANY and they apply to register lorrainefurs as their brand name and some top-level domain names(.CN .HK etc). We found the main body of domain names is same as your company name. I am not sure about the relationship between you and them. Please tell me whether or not your company authorizes them to register names.

We are dealing with the application and we need to confirm whether you have authorized them? If you don’t authorize them, please reply me an e-mail. Looking forward to your reply.

Best regards,

Grace Ma | Service & Operations Manager

Tel:+0086-5538-3662-31 || Fax:+0086-5538-3662-31

This e-mail are confidential and may contain information that is exempt from disclosure by law and subject to copyright.
P please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

Hi, Thanks for sharing this useful article, same thing happen to me. somebody claim from Yanhon Company tried to register with the same name as my domain but with .cn and other chinesse domain
Hope people be more aware of this kind of scam practice – unless you want to establishes a business in china

We are an agency engaging in registering brand name and domain names. Today, Our center received an application from YANHON COMPANY and they apply to register pandacoachingproject as their brand name and some top-level domain names(.CN .HK etc). We found the main body of domain names is same as your company name. I am not sure about the relationship between you and them. Please tell me whether or not your company authorizes them to register names.

We are dealing with the application and we need to confirm whether you have authorized them? If you don’t authorize them, please reply me an e-mail. Looking forward to your reply.

apresnet name application for registration confirmation, please read the following letter:

We are an agency engaging in registering brand name and domain names. Today, Our center received an application from TENGHAN COMPANY and they apply to register apresnet as their brand name and some top-level domain names(.CN .HK etc). We found the main body of domain names is same as your company name. I am not sure about the relationship between you and them. Please tell me whether or not your company authorizes them to register names.

We are dealing with the application and we need to confirm whether you have authorized them? If you don’t authorize them, please reply me an e-mail. Looking forward to your reply.

Regarding registration of your company name allarit, hereby send the confirmation letter, please read it carefully.

We are an agency engaging in registering brand name and domain names. Today, Our center received an application from YANHAN COMPANY and they apply to register allarit as their brand name and some top-level domain names(.CN .HK etc). We found the main body of domain names is same as your company name. I am not sure about the relationship between you and them. Please tell me whether or not your company authorizes them to register names.

We are dealing with the application and we need to confirm whether you have authorized them? If you don’t authorize them, please reply me an e-mail. Looking forward to your reply.

A long time ago, I used to scambait the whole lot of these scum. Mostly the African trunk box scams, but then everything under the sun. On the occasion the Asian scammer would come into play. Then one gets bored, but since its been about 10 years or so since the last time around. Yesterday I started to get the opening gambit to the this scam and the reply from the fake owner of the fake company. Since you have the entire script at hand that they use, you gave me all the ammo to play an old, but effective gag that will leave the scammers pissed off.

I will reply to the 2nd letter (the guy who says he wants to buy the domain names) and tell him he is a c–k sucker and every name under the sun for what he is doing. Of course my “lawye”r is now talking to “their” lawyer and they will settle everything so be patient. Then they will wait a few days and get impatient from not hearing from me and will reply to see what is up.

When they write back and either ask what is up or respond with the next part of the script, I will tell them that my lawyer already cut a deal with the registrar lawyer, why is he writing to me? Naturally this will cause confusion because they will have no idea what I am talking about. So they will write back and ask what do you mean (the process of throwing them off their script because they can’t adlib very well).

I’ll inform them that my lawyer (fake gmail account) has already cut a deal with their lawyer and the money has been sent.. Except that their lawyer is really me (another fake e-mail account). They will have no such lawyer and will complain. I then e-mail them and send them a ficitous e-mail exchange between the two fake lawyers using the full script that you have posted. I’ll also attach a photoshopped fake money wire for like $3500 that is made out to some fake name somewhere in Hong Kong. The real scammer will complain there was hack and I sent my money off to a scammer (pot calling kettle) and be angry. I then in turn will rip him a new a-hole for allowing his company to be hacked and steal my money and I’m sending all their info to my friend at the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC.

There is nothing like a real scammer who thinks another scammer hacked him and made off with the ill gotten money! Great time waster and makes their blood boil.

The Good Guy – Albert Liu
The Bad Guy – Gareth Ning
I omitted my responses, but they contained a lot of sentences expressing my anxiety and general upset to my business :) I asked them how much would it be to register a keyword and waiting for the quote :P

On 07-07-2018 07:35 AM, Albert Liu wrote:

(It’s very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. Thanks)

This is a formal email. We are the Domain Registration Service company in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. On July 2, 2018 , we received an application from Kaining Ltd requested “mosshouse” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (mosshouse.cn, mosshouse.com.cn, mosshouse.net.cn, mosshouse.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your business partner in China?

We will register the China domain names “mosshouse.cn” “mosshouse.com.cn” “mosshouse.net.cn” “mosshouse.org.cn” and internet keyword “mosshouse” and have submitted our application. We are waiting for Mr. Albert Liu’s approval and think these CN domains and internet keyword are very important for our business. Even though Mr. Albert Liu advised us to change another name, we will persist in this name.

Kind regards

Gareth Ning

____
Dear M,

We have already advised them to choose another name according to your company that have no relationship with them, but they insist on this name as China domain names (mosshouse.cn, mosshouse.com.cn, mosshouse.net.cn, mosshouse.org.cn) and internet keyword. In our opinion, maybe they do the similar business as your company then register it to promote his company.

As is known to all, domain name registration based on the international principle is opened to company and individual. Any company or individual have the right to register any domain name and internet keyword which are unregistered. Your company haven’t registered this name as China domains and internet keyword, so anyone is able to obtain them by registration. But in order to avoid this conflict, the trademark or original name owner have priority to register China domain name and internet keyword during our dispute period. If your company is the original owner of this name and want to register these China domain names (mosshouse.cn, mosshouse.com.cn, mosshouse.net.cn, mosshouse.org.cn) and internet keyword to prevent anybody from using them, please inform us. We can send you an application form with price list to help your company register these China domains and internet keyword during our dispute period.

This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration in China. On July 18, 2018 , we received an application from Kaining Ltd requested “greyfoxdesign” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (greyfoxdesign.cn, greyfoxdesign.com.cn, greyfoxdesign.net.cn, greyfoxdesign.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your business partner in China?

This is a formal email. We are the Domain Registration Service company in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. On July 23, 2018 , we received an application from Kaiying Ltd requested “cloudzard” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (cloudzard.cn, cloudzard.com.cn, cloudzard.net.cn, cloudzard.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether your company is affiliated with this Chinese company or not?

This email contains privileged and confidential information intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this email and inform the sender immediately. We appreciate you respecting the confidentiality of this information by not disclosing or using the information in this email.

Someone in my company received one of this emails. Thanks to your blog i found out easily that it was a scam. Here is the text of the email form :
Vince Hu v.h@tazwebs.org.cn

Dear CEO/Principal,
The “******” name registration is concerned with your company name,please check it prudently.
This is a letter regarding “*******” network brand and some “********” based asia domain names(.cn/.hk/.tw/.in Etc). We are a Chinese domain registrar. Recently we received the registration application from Tirs Ltd,they want to register the “*******” network brand and some domain names. Firstly,we want to confirm if the company is your company’s cooperative partner. Secondly,we need to verify whether you have authorize the company to apply these names. Now we are handling this registration, If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we could handle this issue better. Looking forward to your prompt reply.
Best Regards,
Vince Hu
Senior Consultant Manager

We are an agency engaging in registering brand name and domain names. Today, Our center received an application from MarTai Company and they apply to register nerdocs as their brand name and some top-level domain names(.CN .HK etc). We found the main body of domain names is same as your company name. I am not sure about the relationship between you and them. Please tell me whether or not your company authorizes them to register names.

We are dealing with the application and we need to confirm whether you have authorized them? If you don’t authorize them, please reply me an e-mail. Looking forward to your reply.

From: Vince Hu
Dear CEO/Principal,
The “*****” name registration is concerned with your company name,please check it prudently.
This is a letter regarding “*****” network brand and some “*****” based asia domain names(.cn/.hk/.tw/.in Etc). We are a Chinese domain registrar. Recently we received the registration application from Tirs Ltd, they want to register the “*****” network brand and some domain names. Firstly, we want to confirm if the company is your company’s cooperative partner. Secondly,we need to verify whether you have authorize the company to apply these names. Now we are handling this registration, If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we could handle this issue better. Looking forward to your prompt reply.
Best Regards,
Vince Hu
Senior Consultant Manager

Hey Matt, great info. We got hit with the very same scam and were almost thinking about going past the “…the audit period is almost over and we haven’t heard from you since our communication …” message. Then my google sense hit me and I found your website!

Our guy was Gavin Tang from asianetwork.net.cn … our “bad cop” was Karla Ouyang using a gmail account, supposedly from WeiRong Holdings Ltd. It all started September 5th 2018

“Dear CEO,
(It’s very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. If this email affects you, we are very sorry, please ignore this email. Thanks)
We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in China.
We received an application from Hua An Ltd on September 30, 2018. They want to register ” mydomain ” as their Internet Keyword and ” mydomain .cn “、” mydomain .com.cn ” 、” mydomain .net.cn “、” mydomain .org.cn ” 、” mydomain .asia ” domain names, they are in China and Asia domain names. But after checking it, we find ” mydomain ” conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not? Please reply to mike.zhang@cnygdomain.cn or chinanameregistry@188.com.

lin-jianfeng@vip.163.com
“Dear Sirs,
Our company based in chinese office, our company has submitted the ” mydomain ” as CN/ASIA(mydomain .asia, mydomain .cn, mydomain .com.cn, mydomain .net.cn, mydomain .org.cn) domain name and Internet Keyword ” mydomain “, we are waiting for Mr. Mike’s approval. We think these names are very important for our business in Chinese and Asia market. Even though Mr. Mike advises us to change another name, we will persist in this name.
Best regards
Lin jianfeng”

Then today an email from the original sender

“Dear Alistair,

Based on your company having no relationship with them, we have suggested they should choose another name to avoid this conflict but they insist on this name as CN/ASIA domain names ( mydomain .asia , mydomain .cn, mydomain .com.cn, mydomain .net.cn, mydomain .org.cn) and internet keyword (mydomain ) on the internet. In our opinion, maybe they do the similar business as your company and register it to promote his company.
According to the domain name registration principle: The domain names and internet keyword which applied based on the international principle are opened to companies as well as individuals. Any companies or individuals have rights to register any domain name and internet keyword which are unregistered.
Because your company haven’t registered this name as CN/ASIA domains and internet keyword on the internet, anyone can obtain them by registration. However, in order to avoid this conflict, the trademark or original name owner has priority to make this registration in our audit period. If your company is the original owner of this name and want to register these CN/ASIA domain names (mydomain .asia, mydomain .cn, mydomain .com.cn, mydomain .net.cn, mydomain .org.cn) and internet keyword (mydomain ) to prevent anybody from using them, please inform us. We can send an application form with price list to you and help you register these within dispute period. Look forward to your kind reply!

I haven’t received your reply until today. These domains will be cancelled soon.Are you sure you don’t need to renew them?
If so, we will release them. Once the other company got them, your clients will be confused, more worse, the company will copy your website to produce spam or creating the illegal website , which will tarnish your reputation directly.

I know you are very busy and I hope you can spare a little time to care about the domains.Many thanks.

Best Regards,
Henry Luo
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Dear Principal,

I’m Henry Luo from HK TLD Creating Limited.

The domains “xxxxxxx.net.cn/xxxxxxx.hk…” you registered with us had been expired.

If we do not renew in time, these domains will be available for re-registration by anyone.

almost trust their good cop bad cop drama, just got their email this week.

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(Please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. Thanks)

This is a formal email. We are the Domain Registration Service company in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. On Oct 15, 2018 , we received an application from Kailan Ltd requested “palapa-service-center” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (palapa-service-center.cn, palapa-service-center.com.cn, palapa-service-center.net.cn, palapa-service-center.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether your company have relations with this Chinese company or not?

This email contains privileged and confidential information intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this email and inform the sender immediately. We appreciate you respecting the confidentiality of this information by not disclosing or using the information in this email.

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To whom it concerns,

We will register the China domain names “palapa-service-center.cn” “palapa-service-center.com.cn” “palapa-service-center.net.cn” “palapa-service-center.org.cn” and internet keyword “palapa-service-center” and have submitted our application. We are waiting for Mr. Nick Liu’s approval and think these CN domains and internet keyword are very important for our business. Even though Mr. Nick Liu advised us to change another name, we will persist in this name.

Kind regards

Gareth Jing

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Dear aYong,

We have already advised them to choose another name according to your company that have no relationship with them, but they insist on this name as China domain names (palapa-service-center.cn, palapa-service-center.com.cn, palapa-service-center.net.cn, palapa-service-center.org.cn) and internet keyword. In our opinion, maybe they do the similar business as your company then register it to promote his company.

As is known to all, domain name registration based on the international principle is opened to company and individual. Any company or individual have the right to register any domain name and internet keyword which are unregistered. Your company haven’t registered this name as China domains and internet keyword, so anyone is able to obtain them by registration. But in order to avoid this conflict, the trademark or original name owner have priority to register China domain name and internet keyword during our dispute period. If your company is the original owner of this name and want to register these China domain names (palapa-service-center.cn, palapa-service-center.com.cn, palapa-service-center.net.cn, palapa-service-center.org.cn) and internet keyword to prevent anybody from using them, please inform us. We can send you an application form with price list to help your company register these China domains and internet keyword during our dispute period.

This email contains privileged and confidential information intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this email and inform the sender immediately. We appreciate you respecting the confidentiality of this information by not disclosing or using the information in this email.

we operate in New Zealand but have a .com website so not exempt from these scammers!! hope this is helpful and thanks for your article.

Adrian Liu
whiteboardsnz CN domain and keyword

(It’s very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. Thanks)
We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in Shanghai, China. On Nov 19, 2018 , we received an application from Kailong Ltd requested “whiteboardsnz” as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (whiteboardsnz.cn, whiteboardsnz.com.cn, whiteboardsnz.net.cn, whiteboardsnz.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it’s necessary to send email to you and confirm whether your company have relations with this Chinese company or not?

This email contains privileged and confidential information intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this email and inform the sender immediately. We appreciate you respecting the confidentiality of this information by not disclosing or using the information in this email.

(It’s very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. If this email affects you, we are very sorry, please ignore this email. Thanks)

We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in China.
We received an application from Hua Hai Ltd on November 12, 2018. They want to register ” xxx ” as their Internet Keyword and ” xxx .cn “、” xxx .com.cn ” 、” xxx .net.cn “、” xxx .org.cn ” 、” xxx .asia “domain names, they are in China and Asia domain names. But after checking it, we find “xxx ” conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not? Please reply to mike.zhang@cnygdomain.cn or chinanameregistry@188.com.

This email contains privileged and confidential information intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this email and inform the sender immediately. We appreciate you respecting the confidentiality of this information by not disclosing or using